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Spring 2024
 

• HOT TOPIC
  • Reducing CO2 emissions – Oil changes and analyses are key factors
• OELCHECK INSIDE
  • A virtual tour through the OELCHECK laboratory
  • Unique and only at OELCHECK – Automated visual assessments
  • Newly installed – Additional device for determining flashpoints
  • Saving resources and setting an example – How we recover solvents
  • Petra Bots – Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications
  • Health is everything – Promoting employee well-being
  • The givve® card – Tax-free benefit for OELCHECK employees
  • Trade fairs and events – Where you can find us
• Q&A
  • Additional additives for lubricants
• OELCHECK PARTNER FORUM
  • Miba AG – Technologies for a cleaner planet
• OILDOC NEWS
  • Latest seminar dates
  • OilDoc Conference 2025 – Calling all keynote speakers!!

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Summer 2024
 

• HOT TOPIC
  • Standard or long-term? – FAQs about oil change intervals
• OELCHECK INSIDE
  • The impressive new management team – OELCHECK sets its course for the future
  • Resistant to stress – Further training for employees
  • LAB.REPORT 3.0 – Lots more benefits for OELCHECK customers
  • Heavy rain and flash floods – OELCHECK threatened by masses of water
  • OELCHECK turbine – Getting sporty together
  • Trade fairs and events – Where to meet us
• OELCHECK PARTNER FORUM
  • BFS – For clean oil, lower costs and lower CO2 emissions
• Q&A
  • Unknown oil types and dirty tricks – OELCHECK investigates
• OILDOC AKTUELL
  • Latest seminar dates
  • OilDoc Conference 2025 – Secure your early bird discount now!

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Spring 2023

• HOT TOPIC
  • Storage and handling of lubricants – 9 rules and no errors
• OELCHECK INSIDE
  • Fundraising gala at OELCHECK - Running for a good cause
  • Employees – New key account manager, employees celebrating anniversaries and a visit to Teatro
  • Trade fair and events 2023 – Meet us here
  • New and only at OELCHECK – Automated visual assessment
  • Aggressive acids in gas engine oils – Further titrator determines i-pH value
• OELCHECK PARTNER FORUM
  • Doppstadt shredding technology – Best Solution. Smart Recycling.
• Q&A
  • Lab report with no indication of water content – polyglycols are different
• OILDOC NEWS
  • OilDoc Conference & Exhibition/Seminar highlights

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Summer 2023
 

• HOT TOPIC
  • Digitalisation and lubricant analysis – a perfect combination
• Q&A
  • Lubricant analyses – For more sustainability and CO2 savings in industry
• OELCHECK INSIDE
  • Verband Schmierstoff-Industrie e.V. – TSA Spring Conference in Brannenburg.
  • OELCHECK Team – Tour of the Gunvor refinery/Summer lunch break
  • Young visitors – Preschool children check in on the OELCHECK bees
  • OELCHECK – New member of Umweltcluster Bayern
  • Top on Mountain – Football for a good cause
  • Trade fairs and events 2023 – Meet us here
  • Top prospects – Training at OELCHECK
• OELCHECK TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
  • Lubricating greases – Optimised determination of wear and additive elements
• OELCHECK PARTNER FORUM
  • Schaper Emergency Power Systems – Insurance in case of emergency
  • SOS Varnish! – WESTO gets hydraulic and turbine oils back into shape
• OILDOC NEWS
  • Current seminar programme
  • Ray Thibault Award for Rüdiger Krethe
  • Review: OilDoc Conference
  • Customised company seminars

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Winter 2023
 

• Hot TOPIC
  • Fluxes and coolants – Not the best of friends
• OELCHECK INSIDE
  • Fuels in engine oils – OELCHECK measures with new gas chromatograph
  • OELCHECK trains – top training and cool jobs
  • Precise determination of antioxidants – OELCHECK supports global ring trial
  • Peter Weismann – highest accolade for the founder of OELCHECK
  • Caritas Wendelstein workshops – assembly of all-inclusive analysis kits
  • Trade fairs and events in 2024 – meet us here
  • Bavarian, rustic and cosy – the 2023 Christmas party
  • Fit and active – back training for employees
  • Employees celebrate anniversary – OELCHECK congratulates
• Q&A
  • Limit values at OELCHECK – tailored for practice
• OELCHECK PARTNER FORUM
  • Komptech machines – turning waste into new raw material 
• OILDOC LATEST
  • Seminars and certification courses in 2024

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Spring 2022

• OELCHECK Partner Forum
  • Ingenious and efficient – the S-Roll by ANDRITZ Küsters
• OELCHECK Inside 
  • Expansion of IT / New employees / Trade fair dates /OELCHECK training company
  • Photos of the new laboratory rooms/Company suggestion scheme
• Technology Focus
  • Record fuel prices – but the alternatives are limited
• In demand:
  • sample containers for refrigeration compressor oils
  • laboratory report without oxidation value
• OILDOC News
  • The next top events
  • Sustainable machine lubrication

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Summer 2022
 

• Check-up – OELCHECK loves bees!
   
• OELCHECK PARTNER-FORUM
  • Oil analyses for Liebherr – Now even more reliable and safer
  • Trans-Auto AB – Our exclusive agent in Sweden
• OELCHECK INSIDE
  • New! NMR magnetic resonance imaging for lubricants
  • Printand digital sample information forms
  • How OELCHECK determines the flashpoint
  • Upgrade for coolant analyses
• TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
  • Synthetic lubricants – Types, properties and applications
• Q&A
  • Safety data sheets – Packaging leaflets to enhance safety
• THE LATEST ON OILDOC
  • Live in 2023: The OilDoc Conference & Exhibition
  • Seminar highlights in the autumn

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Winter 2022
 

• Hot TOPIC
  • Condition-based oil changes – save money and protect the environment
• OELCHECK PARTNER FORUM 
  • Bayerische Regiobahn – Climate- and environmentally friendly travel
• OELCHECK INSIDE – ALL ANALYSES FROM A SINGLE SOURCE
  • 2022 UN Climate Change Conference / GfT honours Peter Weismann/High-level visit from the USA
• TECHNOLOGY FOCUS
  • AdBlue – A cleaning agent with no residual alcohol
• FAQ
  • The tribologists at OELCHECK – Their knowledge and tasks
• OilDoc News
  • OilDoc Conference & Exhibition/Seminar highlights

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Spring 2021

• Check-up – Initiative during the pandemic
• OELCHECK Inside
  • OELCHECK Customer Survey 2020 – Summary
  • 350 square metres more – Conversion of OELCHECK laboratory
  • Laura Kukuk – Filming at OELCHECK
  • OELCHECK App 4.0 – Machine search now also without QR code
  • OilDoc Conference & Exhibition – OELCHECK is actively involved
• OELCHECK Partner Forum
  • Gear oil in endurance test – Field test contributes to cost reduction
• Technology Focus
  • New and exclusively from OELCHECK – Relative humidity and water saturation
  • Oxidation index – It clearly shows how modern lubricants age

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Summer 2021

• Check-up – 30 years of OELCHECK – a round number anniversary and many new projects ahead
• OELCHECK Inside
  Passed: the monitoring audits DIN EN ISO 9001 and 14001
  Sponsored: Fairy tale and children's theater days in Brannenburg
  Appealing: Our Website shines in new splendor
  Above average: Over 72% of our employees are vaccinated against Covid-19
• Technology Focus
  • Extremely thin – yet fit in practice? The OW-X Generation Car Engine Oils 6
    This is how precisely OELCHECK detects water 7
  • Q&A
    Additional tests, the supplement to the all-inclusive analysis kits from OELCHECK

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Project future

• 30 years of OELCHECK | 1991 – 2021

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Summer 2020
 

• Check-up – OELCHECK is systemically relevant for maintenance
• OELCHECK Inside:
  App with new features – OELCHECK 4.0
  Data security – Awareness of digital risks
  Impressive visit to a paper factory
  OELCHECK is involved in innovative funding projects
  For the health of our employees
  Moving into the new OELCHECK building at the end of 2020
• OELCHECK Partner Forum:
  TEDOM SCHNELL combined heat and power plants – More value from energy
   
• Technology Focus: Alternative fuels – Types and their characteristics
• Q&A:  Lubricants with a changed base oil – Effects

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Winter 2020
 

• Check-up – Breathe new life into your workplace
• Typical limit values for the analysis of coolants
• Technology focus: Gas chromatographs, the finest detection noses in the OELCHECK laboratory
  • How gas chromatography works
  • Gas chromatographs in use
• Antioxidants – Elixirs of life for modern lubricants
  OELCHECK checks oxidation with the RULER test and IR spectroscopy
• OELCHECK Inside:
  • Communication and enjoyment in the new OELCHECK cafeteria
  • OELCHECK customer survey 2020 – how to take part
• Q&A: The shear viscosity of lubricating greases

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Spring 2019
 

• Check-up – USPs: Unique selling points with benefits for the customer
• AN Acid Number – changing the standard creates confusion
• bauma – test out the new OELCHECK-App
• OELCHECK Inside
  • First-class occupational health care
  • One step ahead with continuous training
• No cure without an integrated approach – guest article
• Technology Focus: New! Non-ferrous metal inhibitor content (NFMIC)
  • Early detection of corrosive non-ferrous metal wear
  • Rapid and accurate with HPLC
• Q&A: Clean sample bottles and purity classes

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Summer 2019
 

• Check-up – long-term employment instead of job hopping
• Mandatory programme – Transformer oil analyses
• REM-EDX – Composition determination of larger particles
• Technology focus: Hydraulic fluids – clean is not pure
  • Purity classes and contamination degree
  • Filters and sensors
  • OELCHECK laboratory analyses for maximum security
• OELCHECK Inside:
  • Exclusive agents in Russia and Taiwan
  • OELCHECK laboratory upgrade
  • New Head of Internal Sales – Driving force of success: Further education

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Winter 2019
 

• Check-up – OELCHECK active in social networks
• New analysis set for paper machines
• Topping out ceremony for the largest OELCHECK building project to date
• OELCHECK keeps growing – also globally
• Employee event at Schliersbergalm
• Technology focus: E-mobiles – Lubrication and cooling while electrified
  • How an electric vehicle works
  • Lubricants and coolants reinvented
  • OELCHECK challenged
• Q&A: Can samples from other countries be examined by OELCHECK in Germany?

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Spring 2018
 

• OELCHECK continues to expand – Reinforcements for our team
• OELCHECK team event – A trip to the frozen north
• Technology Focus I: Engine oils for vehicles
  • From reducing exhaust emissions to the e-drive – Current trends at a glance
  • A range of new duties for oil analysis
• Technology Focus II: Coolant analyses detect damage in cooling systems
  • Custom-made analysis kits for examining coolants
  • On the trail of damage in cooling systems
• Q&A: MPC test, a potent weapon in detecting sludge and varnish

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Summer 2018
 

• Check-up – OELCHECK drones take to the skies
• Reinforcements – New Scientific Team Assistants join our lab team
• Exemplary – Workplace health promotion at OELCHECK
• For the whole family – A team event in the mountains of Bavaria
• Technology Focus: Hydraulic fluids
  • Problematic mixtures
  • Compatibility among hydraulic fluids
  • Compatibility analyses in the lab
• Question time: How safe are my data with OELCHECK?

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Winter 2018

• Check-up – OELCHECK, a dream company
• E-mobility – Our expertise is in demand
• OELCHECK – Our all-inclusive analysis kits are now also available in Russia
• China – Oil analyses for Anheuser-Busch InBev
• A new building is on the way
• New laboratory equipment at work – the FT-IR spectrometer
• Technology Focus: Analysing lubricating greases
  • OELCHECK all-inclusive analysis kits for lubricating greases
  • Lubricating greases: their structure and function
  • Sampling made easy
• Q&A: What is a refractive index, exactly?

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Spring 2017
 

• SEW-EURODRIVE: international cooperation with OELCHECK
• Closeness to customers is the key to success – Our Customer Service & Sales Department is expanding
• News from China – Sinopec optimises service with oil analyses
• Hot Topics: OELCHECK analysis kits for coolant and anti-freeze agents
  • The decisive investigative parameters
  • Five new all-inclusive analysis kits 
• Classic Cars by Tom Fischer
• New for gas engines – a kit that can do it all
• Q&A – lubricating grease analyses, parameters and practical uses

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Summer 2017
 

• www.oelcheck.de – A new information centre for lubricant analysis
• The new QR-Code service for our customers
• New test method for fuels: carbon residue in accordance with DIN EN ISO 10370
• Recertification audit for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 passed once again
• Hot topic: air and foam in oil
  • Increased air content, its effects and corrective actions
  • Air release (LAV)
  • Why oil foams – foaming characteristics
  • How to avoid foam
• In demand: zirconium – why does this element pop up in lab reports?

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Winter 2017
 

• New in the laboratory – Four-ball apparatus for determining wear properties
• OELCHECK Wiki – Single point of contact for all aspects of lubricant analysis
• News from China – Diagnosis and analytics „Made in Germany“
• App launch I – Supporting Vestas with sample data entry in a class of its own
• App launch II – Switch to the OELCHECK-App
• Hot Topic: Limit values and their importance
  • How are limit values determined? What role do trends play?
  • Which solutions does OELCHECK offer?
• Q&A: Oxidation values reach their limits when it comes to ester oils

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Spring 2016
 

• Liebherr – engine oils allow oil change intervals to be doubled
• Visit us at bauma and other events
• News from China – OELCHECK becomes CMA-certified and CNAS-accredited
• Together unbeatable – Currenta benefits from the oil maintenance service from WESTO and OELCHECK lubricant analyses
• Hot Topics: Oil analyses – and how our professionals evaluate them
  • Valuable information – and how customers contribute to success
  • Examining all of the values – a threefold approach
  • The analysis – all aspects in focus
  • From standard procedure to the specifics – the commentary 

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Winter 2016
 

• The new OELCHECK-App passes the practical test at Availon
• Keep cool at all times - even coolants need to be monitored
• OELCHECK 2016 customer survey – 98% recommendation rate
• Test methods - Reference values for new and used oils, warning values
• Hot Topics: OELCHECK makes your life easier!
  • Optimised Sample Information Forms
  • QR-Code meets OELCHECK-App
• The OELCHECK 2016 team excursion
• News from China
  • OELCHECK China – CNAS re-audit passed with flying colours
  • OELCHECK at China Wind Power and Inter Lubric

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25th anniversary brochure
 

• A family company is celebrating its birthday
• Figures, data, facts - OELCHECK at a glance
• Milestones
• A large, international family - The OELCHECK team
• Dream Company OELCHECK
• and much more...

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Spring 2015
 

• Hot Topics: The elements of a lubricant check II
  • Wear, impurities or additives
  • Gear and industrial oils and their typical limit values
• New service – free returns of oil samples
• Better safety – for gas engines and chlorine gas compressors
• Less is more – loss of engine oils due to evaporation
• Q & A – Engine oils, oil consumption or oil loss?
• Forming the Future – Schuler leads in forming technology
• News from China – Pirelli, millions of tyres made in China

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Summer 2015
 

• Hot Topics: The elements of a lubricant check III
  • Wear, impurities or additives
  • Engine oils and their characteristic limit values for elements
• Passed with flying colours – Certification for Oil Analysis Specialists
• New in the laboratory - A robot specially developed for OELCHECK
• UPS – Return shipment of oil samples in Germany and abroad
• News from China – Before the light goes out on the drilling rig
• New oil – Problems despite perfect preparation
• Enquiry – Comparability and reproducibility of analyses

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Winter 2015
 

• The intelligent giants from Konecranes
• OELCHECK innovation – The IR Index sets standards
• Six jokers in the pack – New complete kits for wind turbines
• New in the laboratory – Oxidative stability of lubricating greases
• News from China – MAN Diesel & Turbo PrimeServ
• Hot Topics: Higher sustainability and energy efficiency thanks to modern lubricants
  • Sustainability – the potential is still far from being fully realised
  • Higher energy efficiency – just a promise or a reality?
• Success with quality – OELCHECK passes surveillance audits

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Spring 2014
 

• Hako GmbH: Citymaster, sweeping for more cleanliness
• OELCHECK laboratory technicians achieve LLA certification
• Latest test equipment in the OELCHECK laboratory
• News from China – Scania extends service life for HGV motor oils
• HEW – Gas engines have run for 25 years without damage
• Hot Topics: New lubricant, improved performance?
  • Decision criteria when changing lubricants
  • Practical procedure when changing oils
  • Special features of lubricating greases 
  • Control measures after changing lubricants
• LEIPA - world-leading with quality products based on scrap paper
• Q & A – The time factor when sampling correctly

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Summer 2014
 

• Nordex – Gear lubrication quality offensive
• OELCHECK initiative: ASTM D7946 – New Standard for i-pH value!
• News from China – Analyses for Chinese wind turbines
• Hot Topics: OELCHECK SDA analysis service for 2-stroke diesel ship engines
  • Full speed ahead – lubricating large ship engines
  • SDA analysis service – for optimum engine management
  • The SDA laboratory report – a matrix for up to 12 cylinders
• On our own behalf – the OELCHECK Advisory Service
• Successfully passed – Repeat audits for the OELCHECK laboratory

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Winter 2014
 

• Hot Topics: The elements of a lubricant check
  • The elements in the OELCHECK laboratory report
  • Wear, impurities or additives
  • Hydraulic oils and their typical limit values
• LAB.REPORT – Intuitive working with the new customer portal
• The FVA (Forestry test and research institute) visits OELCHECK
• Viva España – the OELCHECK team in Andalucia
• News from China – Travelling by high-speed rail

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Spring 2013
 

• Editorial – OELCHECK takes decisive steps for the years to come
• OELCHECK – A strong brand with a new look
• New services offered by the OELCHECK laboratory
• Lubricants and condition monitoring – OELCHECK recognises trends
• Gas engine oils – Latest information on oxidation determination
• China – Opening of the OELCHECK laboratory in Guangzhou
• Q & A – How can there be high levels of wear metals with normal purity classes?
• OilDoc news

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Summer 2013
 

• Doppelmayr – Number 1 in the global cableway market
• OELCHECK China – Even better service, made in Germany!
• OELCHECK- Leakage test on our sample envelope
• Bayernoil – Gas turbine generates power for a refinery
• Hot Topics: Monitoring hydraulic fluids
  • Current trends
  • Requirements of DIN 51524
  • OELCHECK analyses kits for hydraulic fluids
  • OELCHECK special investigations
• Q & A – Seals leakages after oil change
• OilDoc news

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Winter 2013
 

• Bauer Maschinen revolutionises special foundation engineering
• OELCHECK identifies solid impurities in lubricating greases
• CM Technologies – condition monitoring on the high seas
• Hot Topics:
• The study of filter residues
  • The critical aspects of oil purity and filtering
  • What filter residues reveal – an example from real life
  • Extract filter samples correctly 
  • Filter residue analyses in the OELCHECK laboratory
• LEIPA - world-leading with quality products based on scrap paper
• Requested – soot index for oils from petrol engines

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Spring 2012
 

• Putzmeister - offering quality worldwide
• Analysis kits and gas-tight sample bottles for refrigeration compressor oils
• More playtime fun - thanks to OELCHECK!
• 2012 customer survey results
• The viscosity robot - the new OELCHECK laboratory assistant
• Underground maintenance - K+S KALI GmbH workshops
• Electrostatic discharges in hydraulic oils and lubricants
• Question time: Could lengthy storage times have an influence on your oil samples?
• and much more...

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Summer 2012
 

• Prokon wind turbines – optimum service and secure earnings
• OELCHECK laboratory in the "workbench of the world" domain
• The rappers from the OELCHECK alpine pastures
• Optimised technology and perfect service for gas engines – August Storm
• Hot Topics: 
  Viscosity – the single most important physical characteristic of any oil
• Question time: Limit values
• and much more...

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Winter 2012
 

• OELCHECK China – Getting ready before the new laboratory opens
• OELCHECK Laboratory – quicker and more accurate with a new particle counter
• Hot Topics: The analysis of lubricating greases
  • Correct sampling
  • Most important analysis methods
  • Experience of our experienced tribologists
• In demand – optimising online documentation of laboratory reports
• and much more...

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Spring 2011

• OELCHECK laboratory - Fast and precise water analysis
• How can E10 be detected in engine oil?
• Agnion Heatpipe Reformer technology – a new method for decentralised energy supply
• The analysis of fire-resistant HFC hydraulic fluids
• Question time: Iron and PQ index
• and much more...

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Summer 2011
 

• Evaluation of analytical data from outside laboratories
• Re-audit - passed with flying colours
• Dieffenbacher - Wooden boards and forming technology
• An oil can withstand a great deal, but it should never become genuinely acidic.
• In demand - Individual tests now only with an analysis kit
• and much more...

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Winter 2011
 

• Anniversary - for 20 years we have been deciphering the message of oil
  Transformer oils special:
• The transformer and its oil
• The new OELCHECK analytical kits for transformer oils
• Correct sampling of transformer oils
• Transformer oil investigations and new testing devices in the OELCHECK laboratory

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Spring 2010
 

• OilDoc Conference and Exhibition
• ÖlChecker in English
• Testing lubricating greases with a Soxhlet extractor
• Our significantly improved OELCHECK shop is now online.
• Fischer – 101 injection presses and 9 million plastic plugs
• Typical limit levels for engine oils
• Question time: Low SAPS
• The OELCHECK team in a winter wonderland
• and much more...

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Summer 2010
 

• VKA tests lubricity under high pressure
• TOST test - Ageing behaviour of inhibited oils
• 2,000 m² – more space for OELCHECK and OilDoc
• Changes at OELCHECK and OilDoc
• FVA Lubricants and Tribology Working Group at OELCHECK
• KUKA – all that moves in automation
• New training – Certified Lubrication Specialist
• Question Time – Strong Acid Number (SAN)

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Winter 2010
 

• Coolant in the oil - headspace gas chromatography detects glycol
• OELCHECK laboratory – supplementary devices, maximum operation safety
• Lödige lifts – makes mobility in buildings safe
• Automated microscopic particle counting
• The microscopic particle count sees more
• Question time: different specifications of purity classes
• Website relaunch www.oelcheck.de

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Winter 2009
 

• OilDoc Conference and Exhibition
• Your partners - OELCHECK tribologists
• OELCHECK Environmental Tip: Selection and disposal of rapidly biodegradable hydraulic fluids
• Magic moments for the entire family in Europa Park
• Flender foam test for gear oil analyses
• Precise chlorine determination with the new TOX-100
• Question time: pour point and solidifying point
• and much more...